I see alot of people on this thread saying they're not finding much. That usually can be attributed to one or more of these things. 1.) lack of experience practice makes perfect guys and girls. I rarely return home empty handed but then I've been at this for quite awhile. Stick with it and you'll see a marked improvement over time. 2.) Lack of research which I believe is the number one killer of enthusiasm among begginers. Like everything else in this world success-full Metal detecting requires you to actually do some work thats not in the feild but rather by hitting the books. After all you cant find silver n gold in a places where there has never been any. 3.) creativity, looking where everyone else does is a good place to start, but not a good place to end. Before you leave that site grumbling about how someone else already cleaned it out, stop and think that statement over. If you really understand how these machines work then your saying that every square 1/4 inch has been searched, that's really not possible for any team of MDers let alone one. You can either slow down your forward motion thus searching smaller increaments at a time IE: 3-4 inches or less or you can think outside the box. What I do is think where would be the most unlikely location to search at this site. Try this alone and see what happens to your find ratio. I was just today reading in todays finds of someone who had found tons of silver coins in a well known "hunted out" site. His secret, He was searching where no one else had thought to try, by the front entrance gate. Which in the light of day seems to make perfect sense my mom used to pick me up at summer day camp right at the park entrance and it wasn't just me I remember alot of other kids waiting for their moms there as well. 4.) The fourth and last thing that affects a persons ability to find the good stuff isn't their machine, I hunt alot with my $130.00 dollar BH. I've used that machine along with other MDers using tesoros, minelabs, and DFXs, they can go deeper but given matching digging techniques I'll bet I average 3-4 finds recovered to just 1 for them. Now I would like to point out that my BH is a tracker IV or actually a wally world knock off of one, and not a Lone star which I'm totally not familiar with. But if your machine can reach six inches on wet soil using the first three things I've mentioned should help you make more and better finds.
HH MD dog 8)
